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http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4079| Title: | Knowledge and Ending of Theorizing (A Study in Yuktiṣaṣṭika) |
| Other Titles: | Philosophical Papers, Journal of the Department of Philosophy, Vol. XVII, March-2021, pp. 130 - 139 |
| Authors: | Bora, Shakuntala |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2021 |
| Publisher: | University of North Bengal |
| Abstract: | Nāgārjuna says that liberation is attained not with the help of being or nonbeing but by knowledge of being and non-being. We have Nāgārjuna saying: ‘One is not liberated by being (bhāva), one does not [transcend] the being1 (bhāva) by nonbeing (abhāva), [but] by thorough knowledge of being and non-being (bhā vā bhāvaparijn͂ ānāt) the magnanimous (mahātma) are liberated.’2 For Nāgārjuna this state is the very transcendence of being and non-being by understanding: ‘Those whose intelligence (buddhi) has transcended being and non-being and is unsupported have discovered the profound and inobjective meaning of ‘condition’.’3... |
| URI: | http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4079 |
| ISSN: | 0976-4496 |
| Appears in Collections: | Philosophical Papers. Vol 17 (March 2021) |
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